Archive for September, 2005

Adsense Search has not generated much revenue. However, I have found an area where Adsense Search is useful — in providing us the webmasters insight into what our visitors are looking for. Adsense now reports on the top keywords users type into the search box, and these keywords will provide ideas on what to add […]

Oracle is buying CRM vendor Siebel for $5.85B, which equates to $10.66 per Siebel share. Siebel has sought to be a major player in the data warehousing area with the acquisition of nQuire, which Siebel folded into its suite of offerings as Siebel Analytics. It is unlikely that Oracle will keep the Siebel Analytics component, […]

eBay is buying Skype, the up-and-coming VoIP player for between $2.6 and $4.1 billion, depending on Skype’s future financial performance. Very interesting combination. And it looks odd. But, if you compare this with Yahoo’s deal with Alibaba.com, there are actually similarities. In combining Alibaba’s ecommerce platform with Yahoo’s Messenger/Mail/Search capabilities, the new Alibaba entity created […]